Singapore - could easily have been Vancouver

We've just returned from a few days break in Singapore. It is such a first world city that I not only got to replace my MAC cosmetics, but had a choice of 8 stores in which to do so.

We had forgotten how lovely it is to be in a city with no pollution, wide sidewalks, lots of green space and an eclectic mixture of old and new.. mostly very, very modern. Of course, these things do come with a price - and I don't just mean money. In SE Asia, it takes a lot of rules to create such a safe, modern, multicultural society and we saw signs everywhere for $500 fines for everything from littering to jaywalking.

Still, it was refreshing...